Scooter 7.2 - Blood In the Water

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Welcome back to the Scooters, everyone. Last we left off, Laila was beginning her university career as an at-best average villainy major at Foxbury Academy. Let's see where she heads next.

 

I thought I'd highlight how aesthetically pleasing Foxbury is. Yeah I might've made a mistake sending Laila and Ichi to this academy with its bad layout, but...it's way nicer to look at than Britechester U imo.

One thing Laila will not admit is that she's falling behind on her assignments. Sure, she was fine in high school, but university is a whole other ballgame. One thing she does love doing, though, is presentations. She's got the panache, the flair.

Laila: Did the incomparable Miss Yzma get as far as she did without being as Éxtra as she was? I don't damn well think so.

Do not be fooled. Laila is not studying. She has discovered that she can log onto the online blackboard mainframe and un-submit people's assignments.

Laila: Hmmm, let's see... Jocelyne Jacquard? Looks like you didn't make your deadline, honey. Beep!

(sigh) It's fun being me.

Ichi, man, you really gotta learn to hold that hammer right! You're gonna cave your own forehead in.

Koichi: (wincing) Ahhhhffhghhhgg, that smarts. Fuck, I wish SOME people in this faculty would properly WIPE their tools BUT I GUESS that's too much to ask!

It was a peaceful night in the Foxbury student commons...

Xiamei: ...god, and there's this girl, my roommate. She's literally nuts.

Random student: (giggles) The one you left a note for?

Xiamei: Yes! She literally goes around like, insulting people and picking fights with them. Not one day passes without her doing that. I actually think she gets off on it.

Student: That's like, sociopath behaviour. Have you reported her?

...when Laila sensed a disturbance in the force.

Laila: Yo, you. Simon and Garfunkel. If you're gonna talk shit about me, at least give me a peer review to better myself in being a bitch to people.

Xiamei: (mumbles and returns to her laptop) I wasn't saying anything...

Student: We weren't talking about you. Why don't you go bother someone else?

Laila, aside: Oh, I'm sorry. I thought because your bad orange dye-job was so offensively ugly, you were trying to be the most aggro person in the room. I thought I was being less offensive this whole time.

Student: Wh--

Laila: Now I'm realising you're actually a shy, quirky girl who couldn't argue her way out of a bag. Real Ugly Betty-type beat. (pause) Get that shit fixed.

Student: ...jeez. You really are a crazy bitch.

I swear man, Ichi is scowling just as much as Laila. I think it's the Loner trait mixed with him living in the dorms.

Koichi: Rain cancelled the outdoor bot event on the lawn. (sigh) Now I have to go back to my stupid little dorm and be surrounded by my shitty little roommates.

Bad weather didn't stop Laila from heading out to the commons and shooting some hoops. She really randomly took to basketball one day, lol love that for her.

Laila: Listen, my biting diatribe can't be my only sexy quality. Go sports!

Are you...are you playing Sims?

Laila: Uh, yeah? What, like my simblr's gonna run itself?

Fucking simblr...you have ASSIGNMENTS TO DO!!

Laila: Assignments are not fun nor sexy. Well, neither is editing and queuing for my simblr, but that's beside the point.

Laila wasn't ready for when, one night, Xiamei just rushed her!

Xiamei: Surprise, bitch!

Laila: What the fuck--ow! You little pink haired cocksucker!

Xiamei: I'll fuck you up! Let's go right now!

Koichi has had it up to here with the Xiamei vs. Laila rivalry.

Xiamei: (storming down the hall after she kicked Laila's ass)

Koichi: (mutters) Just go to your happy place, Ichi, just go to your happy place...

Laila, aside: I'm not FUCKING done with you, bitch!

Koichi: (groans) Happy place, happy place...

Laila had been hearing about some people making some offerings to the statue for academic success. A magical A on their papers, or just the right moment of cognizant thought to power through their coursework. She thought it was time to act on it.

Laila: I'm sure nobody will mind if I just... (snip!) Ah, a nice little red rose. No one will miss you.

She left it at the foot of the statue in the dead of the night, where it mysteriously immediately disappeared before her eyes.

Laila: (giggles nervously) What the fuck?

Now, we wait.

One of the other roommates seems to have taken a side in the Scooter v. Fang rivalry, in Laila's favour.

Xiamei: (seizing and groaning)

Laila: Love that for you, babe, love that for you.

In spite of himself, Koichi was curious about Laila. He wanted to know what kind of wiring she had that made her seek out unlikability as much as she did.

Koichi: Hey, Laila. If you aren't doing anything later, wanna head into town?

Laila: Town...? Actually, yeah, I haven't done that yet. (suspicious) What's the catch?

Koichi: No catch. I'm just bored and want out of here, and you're the only one I've spoken to. You in, or what?

Laila: Hmm...sure. Why not. I'll get dressed.

So they caught a bus into town and got off at the Moon Crossing Pub. Despite herself, Laila was excited for her first experience at a real, actual, English pub.

Laila, aside: Well this seems (terrible English accent) roight an' propah.

Koichi, aside: Never do that again.

Laila: This place is nice, Ichi! Who knew you had taste?

Koichi: ...I'll ignore that. So, can I get you anything? I dragged you out here, so I'll get the bill.

Laila: I actually don't drink alcohol. But I'll take anything fruity and fizzy if you're buying.

Koichi: Man, you don't drink? Give it another semester. Shit'll change you.

So began Koichi's dissection of Laila's brain.

Koichi: Wait, wait, wait. You actually ate bugs growing up?

Laila: Trust me, I was as weird about as you are. But...when you can't really tell what it is, you stop caring. You know?

Koichi: I guess, but...don't you ever stop thinking about it?

Laila: Nope, and I still haven't. But...ayah's beetle cookies were pretty tasty!

Koichi: (RETCH) Stop. Next question.

Laila: ...wow, I feel like I've been trialled at the Hague. What about you, dude? Tell me about Koichi.

Koichi: Is this a trap, where you're gonna stop me halfway and call me boring?

Laila: No! ...How did you get my method down so exactly?

Koichi: You do it enough. (pause) Well, I was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. Went to America when I was 7, then I came here. Nothing exciting.

Laila: Why'd you choose to do robotics here?

Koichi: (shrugs) I was good at it, so I kept doing it. Easy enough. It isn't that deep.

Laila: Man. Not even one mental gymnastic. You're insane, dude.

They walked around for a bit afterwards, not minding the rain.

Koichi: ...actually quite like the rain. Suppose that's why I thought moving to the UK was so hot. It's cool, it lets me think, and I love the white noise.

Laila: Me too! Me and my sister Yasmin always played in the rain as kids.

Koichi: Now, I don't know about playing in it...

Laila: Oh, come on, Kawahara! Loosen up. It's easy! Just frolic.

Koichi: ...frolic?

Laila: Yep. Arms out! ...Come on, you can do it! ...Come on dude, don't make me press the issue. I'm already committed to looking like a dumbass and you're coming with me.

Koichi: Fine!

Laila/Koichi: (laughing)

Laila: You got it! Cut loose a little, robot boy. You're about as stiff as the models you work on.

Koichi: (smirks) Aaaaand there it is. (sigh) Thanks, Laila.

Laila: You're sooooo welcome.

Laila headed back because she's got some assignments to work on. Koichi stayed to go to the library. Man--can you believe I put down this quite frankly incredible library on Gibbs Hill only to wander into it once? Why do I suck so much?

Koichi was in there to source some relevant reading material for his latest assignment.

Koichi: (muttering) ...can't believe I took a philosophy elective. Philosophy. Fucking shadows on a cave wall type shit. Me.

Miss Mei, I am sorry, but you are really harshing the vibe right now.

Xiamei: Me, harshing the vibe. Me, and not the crazy-ass bitch that picks a fight with someone new literally every single. Not me, the cute Twitch streamer who got surprisingly fat titties. (sigh)

Scooter, this is your moment. Upon this flat top of...frighteningly detailed asphalt, you are the basketball queen.

Laila: Come on, bitch. Let's do this.

 

In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here
From this dark, cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear

The compu-sci faculty has been experiencing a strange glitch where some people's assignments have been becoming unsubmitted. Detective Kawahara is on the case.

Koichi: Hmm. If there's no traces of a virus or corrupted directories, this is telling me someone's doing this manually. But who would do that? Who would be awful enough to do th--

...Scooter.

Who would be awful enough to do that? Certainly not Miss Laila Scooter who zooms in on people to rip on whenever she's at the student comments.

Laila: Nice track suit, lame boy! What are you running from? Your problems?

Random student: ...yeah, I just got dumped today.

Laila: Aaaaawwww! I've already moved on, byeeeeee!

Laila: Boo!

Random student: Aaaachchck! Don't scare me like that! You don't know what you've done!

Laila: Oh yeah? What did I do?

Random student: You're going to cause me to glitch so hard I crash the game aajjgjhh--

Laila: Wh--

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I wish The Sims 4 Discover University a very please stop crashing on me. That'd be great. See you next time!